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...intellectual, scholarly, never married Justice Benjamin Cardozo and a tightfisted solitary cleric. In looks and wit, he resembles comedian Pat Paulsen; in his 5 o'clock shadow, Richard Nixon. He favors well-worn suits (black robes are said to add color to his wardrobe), cheap cars (a 1987 Volkswagen), non-power lunches (cottage cheese and an apple) and classical music. His main indulgence is to go off with his small circle of friends to Boston for the symphony, with a stop at Goodspeed's, a rare print-and-book shop in the city. There he purchased the 1850s print...
...Germany's regained prominence will give a fillip to wider usage of the language, and is bound as well to contribute more words to other tongues. Already television viewers in the U.S. have seen signs of a heightened linguistic confidence on the part of the Germans. One example: a Volkswagen ad campaign that centers on the word Fahrvergnugen, or joy in driving -- however mispronounced it may be in the commercials. Only a few years ago, the use of a German word in an advertisement in English would have been avoided, if only because the sound of German was associated with...
...McCloy program was established in 1982 by agrant from the Volkswagen Foundation, analogous,Schmiedeberg says, to the American FordFoundation. Because the German foundation awardsonly one donation to each charity it gives to, itsgrant money will be gone...
Kevorkian, meanwhile, was searching for a place to accomplish the deed. The hotels, vacant office buildings and funeral parlors he approached all turned him down. So he resurrected his 1968 Volkswagen, bought the cot and some clean sheets. Without the aid of any hospital or lab, Kevorkian confirmed an Alzheimer's diagnosis and judged Adkins lucid. Two days later, they drove to a public park that had electrical outlets for campers. "There was no other place I could do it," he says. "My landlord would have thrown...
When she told her tale, Franklin-Lipsker became otherworldly, retreating into herself, a child of eight again, riding along in her father's Volkswagen van. As she now remembers that day, they stopped and offered a ride to Susan Nason, who lived five houses away. The two girls piled into the back to bounce on the mattress until her father pulled off the road near the reservoir and joined them. Eileen got into the front passenger seat; when she looked back she saw her father holding Susan's hands above her head, "on top of her, her legs spread apart...